“Creativity is the vulnerability to spiritual and physical sensation, and to experience, combined with and acting upon a certain level of skill, combined with the compulsion or longing or need or desire to give.” NeedsGivingSpiritualDesireCertainLevelsActingCreativitySkillsLongingVulnerabilitySensationsCompulsion Author:Michael Ventura
“These things - the degree of vulnerability, the degree of skill, the degree of the longing to give - are influx all the time, And to lump all that under the word "creativity" assumes something much more static than it is. That's why an artist may be marvelous in her 20s, and be creating automatic crap in her 40s. A writer may be trivial in his 20s, and be writing incredibly in his 50s, because those things are always in flux.” GivingWritingMayArtistCreativitySkillsDegreesCreatingLongingAssumingVulnerabilityCrapMarvelousStaticLumpsFlux Author:Michael Ventura
“All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.” GivingPainSufferingCausesBeautyPathSafeNovelistsEssayistsAudacious Book:The Zoo where You're Fed to God: A Novel Source: The Zoo where You're Fed to God: A Novel
“My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?” LifeGivingYearsUseReturnSixTwentiesEnormousEmployers Book:Letters at 3am: reports on endarkenment Source: Letters at 3am: reports on endarkenment
